This is serious. The only people who don't seem to think it is are on Free Republic.
The accusations against and prosecution of Lt. Pantano on pre-meditated murder was also "serious" to all, but many here. Charges against him were dismissed after the autopsy evidence was brought forward.
What's got into you lately, sinkspur? I haven't seen anybody here say that these allegations are not serious. These are obviously VERY serious allegations.
Some people here (ahem) are already building gallows for the accused Marines, while others of us are more prone to give the Marines the benefit of the doubt in the face of a report from stinking TIME magazine, a report which, by the way, depended on some mysterious "Iraqi civil rights group" as a primary source. But either way, I believe that everyone agrees that the allegations are serious.
We will only have a better idea of what actually happened and whether the allegations have any truth to them when all official investigations are complete, and maybe not until the trials (if there are any) are over.